IF SOMEONE IS TEACHING YOU that God does not know everything that is going to happen in the future — especially that He doesn’t know who will be saved until after they have so-called “made a decision for Christ” (as an excuse for making an idol out of freewill) — I ask you searchingly “Is this a god that you want to worship, trust and follow?” Because this is what many are teaching today and misleading many new converts who are posting it all over social media as if they were the cat who got the cream (because of their relief that it is they who are in control after all). It’s like the blind leading the blind. This teaching especially appeals to those who have not overcome the despising of God’s absolute sovereignty over all to which they previously adhered before they allegedly came to Christ. They still despise His sovereignty even now. My friends, what these folks believe in is not the God of the Bible, who in reality says:

“I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish’” (Isaiah 46:10).

This is not the God of the Bible, about whom it is said:

“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Ephesians 1:4-5).

This is not the God of the Bible, who emphatically declared:

“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep” (John 10:14-15).

How could He have laid down His life for sheep who He did not know? The atonement is personal not hypothetical and impersonal! The god of these people is not the God of the Bible, about whom it is said, “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18). When the Bible says that “as many as were appointed to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48), is it possible that the One doing the appointing would not know whether those He had appointed to eternal life would believe? To answer “Yes” would be blasphemous. And that is what this teaching about the limited foreknowledge of God is. Blasphemous. Yet it is the latest craze, especially among so many new converts who seem to rejoice in the victory of freewill over the will of God and relish “reimagining theology for a new generation”. Yet another lunatic cultish bandwagon to add to the already huge list to inveigle the unwary.

Why would anyone have any interest whatsoever in a God who is not both wholly omniscient and fully omnipotent, unless they want a ‘genie in a bottle’ rather than a mighty sovereign power in control of everything in this cosmos, which He created and in whom all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17)? The ‘god’ of these people, both of those who espouse it and those condemned miscreants who taught them, is not my God and never will be. They want a god who bends to their will rather than one to whose will they must bow. This is why it is so important to ensure that one lays down an inner foundation in one’s heart which loves truth and logic, which is buttressed against deception, and which questions everything. But all of that normally comes naturally to the genuine people of God. So what does that tell you?

Always remember, “God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things” (John 3:20). ALL things, not some or even most. All. Period. End of.

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2023
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